September 6, 2012: Morning
- Russian president wears a beak while flying a motorized hang glider to rescue a flock of endangered cranes.
- U.S. accused of torturing Gadhafi's enemies before handing them over.
- Fact checking lies and yarns (and Bill Clinton's startling truth) at the Democrats' convention.
- Paul Ryan happy to seek Affordable Care Act funds when they improve a town in Wisconsin.
- Fence-impaled man praises Obamacare.
- Fifty-four pictures from the summer's Paralympics.
- Things you don't know about Africa's economy.
- Neat chart combines national crime rates with populations' thoughts on heaven and hell.
- French education minister calls for reinstating moral education.
- Scalability lacking in the business of sewing together $4,000 suits.
- Big Wired package on "flash failures" and Wall Street's love of high-speed trading.
- Nine vital things learned after living in New York City for five years.
- On "post-occupancy"—new trend in architecture where designers actually visit their buildings afterward.
- Artist/architect attaches large black dots to empty buildings in Venice available for squatting.
- The contemporary artist has become the aspirational paradigm of the new worker: creative, unconventional, flexible, nomadic, creating value, and endlessly travelling.
- Writers with MFAs aren't obligated to slave in academia—consider the creative agency.
- Now available: paperback book that consists of found photos depicting broken Kindle screens.
- Davy Rothbart asks people in Venice Beach about his (hilarious) new book, which none of them have read.
- Doctor diagnoses a woman who needs to be held upside-down.
- On memory and why you're more likely to remember that someone's a baker rather than Baker being their last name.